<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 2/10/03 6:21:35 PM Central Standard Time, davidpalmquist@dccnet.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Try a trumpet straight mute or any trumpet mute at all in the bell of the <BR>
bone, and use a larger plunger with it. See what happens<BR>
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This is the way that people I know do it. A straight mute, called a "Pixie" is made for<BR>
this purpose. I have one for trumpet or cornet here in my hands. It is a stonelined metal mute. It says "Pixie Straight Mute - 'For Plunger Work'" This one was made by Humes and Berg Mfg.Co., East Chicago, Indiana.<BR>
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Of course, you also employ some kind of plumbing devise called a plunger or a mute<BR>
called a plunger that looks a lot like the former but has a finger ring on it. The cheaper version works just fine. Get a Pixie and a plunger and go to it. Sorry to be<BR>
so late in posting but I was way behind in reading my email.<BR>
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best wishes, <BR>
boblynn<BR>
just outside Chicago in Park Forest, IL<BR>
bobolink7736@aol.com
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